30 food related career choices NOT including a restaurant chef – Examiner.com

Talk to any of your friends or family members who work in a restaurant kitchen, and they will tell you about the long hours working nights, weekends, and holidays. They will tell you about the burns and knife related injuries, their sore feet and back problems, and the fast pace life of a restaurant chef. Many of us really enjoy this type of atmosphere as a career choice, however, it is not a fit for everyone. Here is a short-list of food related career choices other than working in a restaurant…

I know that University of Chicago here in Illinois has a great program. If you are looking to go more of the chef route, Johnson & Wales in Providence, Rhode Island offers a Culinary Nutrition degree so you get to do more cooking related things with your classes…

A culinary nutrition degree is a great combination! I’m think I’m done studying for a while now though 🙂 I might put 5 years of nutrition & dietetics/exercise science to good use first! Best wishes for your studies.

This is an aptly timed article, although I am not coming from a professional culinary background, I am a home cook of many years and blogger of seven! Recently the Design Agency (specializing in Food Packaging and Food Photography) where I had worked for the last nine years as a Client Service/Marketing/Manager/Jack of all trades, master of none, down-sized and I found myself without work. So I decided to pursue my passion of Food Styling. I am still learning the ropes as an assistant food stylist and recipe tester, but in my quest I have founds that many of the esteemed stylists and recipe developers have come from professional culinary backgrounds, another one for your list!

Thanks for posting this! I get the total side-eye at school when I tell people I DON’T want to go work a line somewhere. I want to teach, and blog, and maybe write a cookbook someday. I just keep running into people with such a narrow definition of what “chef” means.

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